DESCRIPTION

This role will help support & develop the Finance department. This is an exciting time to join the Finance team at Dye & Durham as we are going through a transformation with the backing of Executive Leadership. We are looking for someone who has up to 1-2 years experience ideally within AR with some credit control experience, but this is not essential. This is a fantastic opportunity to get a lot of broader experience and develop your skills and knowledge, whilst also making your mark on D&D processes!

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERTISE

We know you will have a wide and varied skill set, but to thrive in this role we think you need;

• A degree in either Finance or Accounting or similar and/or 1 year industry experience.
• Excellent proactive communication skills, able to build relationships and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders effectively
• Enjoy following process and working to deadlines, with excellent organisational skills.
• Excellent telephone manner and able to have difficult conversations where necessary.
• Be committed to continuous learning and development.
• Intermediate or advanced Excel – confident taking data and manipulating it to identify changes, errors, and other trends.
• Support the team by completing any ad hoc tasks where necessary.
• Able to work from the Paddington office 3 days per week and 2 days WFH.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Credit collection and relationship management with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Customer liaison including monitoring the email inbox for queries, sending customer statements and setting up new customers on the system.
• Account reconciliations - able to identify issues and work to resolve them across multiple systems.
• Setting up direct debits.
• Help with continuous improvements of our systems and processes whilst ensuring compliance with statutory law and financial regulations.
• Review and analysis of data to check for discrepancies, including ensuring all financial transactions are properly recorded, filed and reported within company guidelines.

We know you will have a wide and varied skill set, but to thrive in this role we think you need;

• A degree in either Finance or Accounting or similar and/or 1 year industry experience.
• Excellent proactive communication skills, able to build relationships and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders effectively
• Enjoy following process and working to deadlines, with excellent organisational skills.
• Excellent telephone manner and able to have difficult conversations where necessary.
• Be committed to continuous learning and development.
• Intermediate or advanced Excel – confident taking data and manipulating it to identify changes, errors, and other trends.
• Support the team by completing any ad hoc tasks where necessary.
• Able to work from the Paddington office 3 days per week and 2 days WFH